Even if one knew nothing about Marc Andre's background, it would take just a few bars of any one of the chamber pieces in this collection to work out where his affinities lie. The fractured textures in durch, for saxophone, percussion and piano - a mosaic of breathy exhalations and prepared piano sounds coloured by the sympathetic resonances from gongs - and the etiolated glissandi that make up much of the string trio ...zu..., both immediately suggest connections with the sound world of Helmut Lachenmann. In fact the 44-year-old, Paris-born Andre was a pupil of the German pedagogue after initially studying in France with Gerard Grisey, and out of those two formidable creative voices he has established his own synthesis, to which he has given a personal slant by giving Christian associations to his works, so that both ...zu... and ...als...II, for bass clarinet, cello, piano and live electronics, refer to passages in the Book of Revelation, while durch stems from part of St Luke's gospel. It's certainly a strange mixture, distinctive and with its own musical integrity, but resolutely uninvolving.